GRASS ROOTS ACTION FOR SOCIAL PARTICIPATION (GRASP)

GRASP provides vertical draft energy-efficient wood stoves which reduce users` fuel consumption, emissions, firewood collection time, and health risks. -Rural families using traditional wood stoves for cooking -Rural families living in where community woodlots have degraded and people are facing firewood shortages Millions of rural poor families in India live in areas with scarce fuelwood. They cannot afford alternative fuels such as kerosene and spend many hours every day collecting firew... ood. GRASP helps minimize the time to find spent looking for that firewood. -Grass Roots Action for Social Participation (GRASP)`s stoves are introduced in three stages. -They are initially promoted by GRASP using subsidies and marketing. -Distribution is then shifted to local self-help groups, who sell the stoves as franchisees. -Finally manufacturing itself is shifted to the village level to further reduce costs and increase empowerment.

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